TCRγδ+ T cells in peripheral blood of patients with adult Still's disease

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 124-129

  Hoshino, Tomoaki ^a   Ohta, Akihide ^b   Nakao, Masanobu ^a   Ota, Toshiyuki ^c   Inokuchi, Tetsuaki ^d   Matsueda, Shunsuke ^d   Gouhara, Rumi ^d   Yamada, Akira ^e   Itoh, Kyogo ^e   Oizumi, Kotaro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d First Dept of Internal Medicine

^e Department of Immunology ^*

Author keywords

Adult Still's disease; Disease activity; Peripheral blood lymphocytes; TCR + T cells; V 9 V 2 subset

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR DELTA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; STAINING AND LABELING; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0029671407     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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